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Did you know that Fenix has started pretending that he speaks with a British accent because people said RUBBERZ sounded like a song by The Smiths? At one point in the Channel 5 interview, AI music booster Timbaland calls him up to strike a deal and he responds with an I'm Br-ish accent like he's Ali G from the mirror universe.🇬🇧 This shameless opportunist is unwittingly creating Brass Eye in real life, a kind of performance art so deep that the creator isn't even conscious of it. I'm…

There's a viral tiktok song called RUBBERZ that is clearly generated by some low-rent generative audio model, presumably via the prompt "drake + pina colada song", where the artist behind it gave the most obvious lipsync ever to prove that the song isn't AI. He then did an interview with Andrew Callaghan where he atonally butchered his own lyrics. It's like the whole world is getting Boratted except everyone can see through it and his brazen refusal to admit that he's lying only increases the…

jakub dominé - synthesis There are supertasters, but are there superlisteners? Often when listening to music with people, I realize that I'm hear details in the music that don't consciously register to non-musicians: the subtle off-beat bassline.. the tasteful thickness of it. Then people like Jakub come along and show me how far there is to go still. He dials in synth tones with loving precision and inspires me to find and emulate my own grail patches.

freak heat waves - i can't tell can't read your mind or see what you hide it's out of my reach and sight simulate the taste and the smell i can't tell trust me you don't need to even try got it all up your sleeve in disguise replicate the taste and the smell i can't tell

I think about the miracle of libraries often. And I think something similar as I hear blips of Esther Perel tragically slinging furniture or clothes at me as I mash my +30s button: “oh my god, it fucking rules that we can skip ads.” “Wherever you get your podcasts is a radical statement” Libraries are an institution and podcasts a protocol, but they're both a gift to us, a path dependency first trod by our idealistic forebears.

Klara and the Sun is a novel written through the compound eyes of a constitutionally ingenuous artificial intelligence. I inhaled it in a few days and have been pondering its questions on love, faith, contingency, and authenticity since. I recommend it! But this post is about an aspect of the story that its author, Kazuo Ishiguro, chose not to interrogate very deeply. Why will robots and renewable energy not massively improve our quality of life? I can think of some reasons: climate-induced…

Jim Lill is a musician from Nashville who conducts audio equipment A/B benchmarks with unusually high rigour and posts them on YouTube. His most recent of these is on microphone preamps. people are. It's fair to say he's been getting a lot of feedback:🔊 Criticism has converged on a handful of things: He's comparing a modern Focusrite 2i2 to a 1970s Neve 31105 that was specifically designed to be as transparent as possible. It's the other Neve preamps (like the 1073) that have special character.…

Beyond its crux, the flippancy with which The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas' narrator invents the city is the most distinctive aspect of the story to me. There's a reading where the suffering child is optional - only necessary if you can't buy the first two and a half pages - because the narrator is only negotiating with our suspension of disbelief, not telling us about a place that Really Exists. In that way, if you can imagine or accept that this miraculous little city could exist without…

When I visited Kigali for 2 weeks in 2022, I observed a labour-capital ladder: At the bottom, the poorest workers could earn a living by carrying fuel to and fro on foot. Next, people with bicycles did the same thing faster. If you saved enough from cycling, you could buy a motorcycle and become a mototaxi driver, providing transport for the city's middle class. Taxi car drivers were on the next rung with air conditioning, personal space, and higher profits. At the top, luxury taxi car drivers…

For all the cynical things I had to say about internet comments, I also cherish them. I love the bootleg concert guestbooks, the votive candle shrines underneath golden oldies. Or the 100x-distilled nostalgia underneath the minecraft OST as children begin to realize they are going to die: Or the thousand-person roast of RZA's terrible beat for the guitar center promo: Humanity condensate.

This post assumes a basic level of familiarity with the jujutsu version control system. If you haven't used jujutsu, you'll still get the gist of the idea, but I recommend reading Steve's Jujutsu tutorial after. When developing a large feature, writing Good Commits is hard. And by Good Commits, I mean something like: define types add DB functions server CRUD client API client UI This allows reviewers to step through your pull request in small bites, with each set of changes scoped to a single…

Last night, I watched the Star Trek Voyager episode Critical Care. In it, the Doctor is abducted into a hospital that is undersupplied & understaffed. He immediately gets to work helping the sick and lambasting the inequity of the hospital's coverage. The rich and powerful get top quality care; the poor are given beds to die on. It turns out the hospital's resources are allocated by a computer (the Allocator), which calculates scores for each patient based on a consequentialist rubric. If…

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carolina eyck - how to play a scale on the theremin I'd never thought about how this was done. Almost every time I see a theremin played, it's for a reverb/delay-heavy freakout solo. Now I see that their sensitivity can be tuned! And you can either quantize them for easy scales or do it “fretless” for maximally expressive singing. Neat. Her orchestral performances are beautiful. See Ocean Light for Theremin and Orchestra with the Berlin DSO. I love the bass range she can pull down to (at 1:41)

arco A beautiful, tender film about love! I love Miyazaki & Moebius. Aesthetically: extremely for me. It’s a children’s movie, but one that respects and admires children both in its characterization and writing for them. At the edges of the story, one can start to wonder about the mechanics of the world we’re shown, but most of the time I was too enchanted to mind.

What colour is the pepper on this skewer? I say yellow. My colleagues said green. I value open-mindedness, and in similar situations will defer to the group, but this felt like being persuaded to deny my own subjective experience: a tall order for words alone. I couldn't look at the pepper and say "green green green" and see it as any other colour. I'm nominalist about such things, "yellow" isn't "real" - what's actually happening is we're expressing how we classify things: see ismy.blue. One…

Monstergarden’s Worldbuilding Monstergarden is a project by an concept artist enhandled Monlez He’s writing and illustrating a world of reinterpreted fantasy tropes, one vlog at a time. The project is part process, part showcase, part loretelling. He also crowdsources ideas during livestreams, an egregore of imagination, the most recent of which resulted in his take on gnomes. Questionably intelligent vegetables that leave the loam grow limbs and roam. His style’s macabre, verging on gross. It…

I don't know why this feels like some sad or significant thing to say - it's one of the internet's oldest clichés - but, anyone else feeling like comment sections kinda sucky these days? It used to be that I'd browse forums or reddit or twitter and read the comments alongside the OP for extra perspective, clarifications, or debunking. Now, most of the time, it feels like The Comments are transcriptions of the Two Minutes Hate. what was the point of reading this Yes The Comments can still be…

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